A photo tour through New Westminster, BC - Royal City - 49°12′25″N 122°54′40″W

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Missed Opportunity #1

The closer it gets to completion, the more I dislike Plaza 88. Monolithic malls are no way to create community and encourage people to gather along a city street. This part of Columbia sees pretty much no foot traffic and I feat it won't in the future. Missed opportunity by the city and developer to create something positive at this corner.

2 comments:

Whilst Plaza 88 is new to me the concept is not. Here in Leeds there are well on with constructing a big new city centre mall, I think I have mentioned it a couple of times, not really high on my radar compared to say the first snowdrop. By chance I got chatting to someone on a city street and he had a pretty girl and was taking shots of a fashion outlet perhaps 200 yards from the new mall, he was going to market the soon to be empty shop when they moved to the new mall!

@Paul - The mall is the scourge of modern cities, imho. If I owned a shop, I'd rather be streetside as the actual mall portion is underneath the rail line behind this white building. Underneath where there is no sunshine. I just know that given the chance I will avoid the environment created with this shopping complex and choose to go somewhere much more welcoming.